I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.